Storm

to just sit, and with no small degree of courage, allow every confrontation of thought, sensation, and emotion to simply show itself, a revelation of our own mind in the turmoil taken as it's natural state. We believe our minds a storm. But they're not, our natural point is the calm allowing that gives every storm passage. With no exceptions. Of course we each believe otherwise, or we do for a certain length and time until for whatever reason we gather the courage to sit with whatever makes an appearance, sitting through every show of storm the mind will offer. 

and continuing to just sit.

until nothing happens.

that's the true revelation, our mind is motion, Buddhist label this the five aggregates, being material form, feelings,perceptions, volition, and sensory consciousness, all all of this arises and passes continuously. It certainly sounds exhausting. Mindfulness is the practice of noting this motion, what arises, and seeing how none of it has true substance of its own, real in it's effects, yet illusory still. Seeing this, we come to a point of clarity, untouched by any storm, spacious by our very nature. It's a worthy endeavor, a life worth's practice of seeing who we are. 

yet it's not exactly what I'm thinking of here. 

it seems the aggregates are always in motion, indeed, being so by nature. Mindfulness offers the opportunity of noting their existence, being watchful to the subtle point of their appearance, not interfering with their length of stay, and again watching how shift and appear as something other, constantly arises, passing, and arising once more. 

this isn't about being watchful, at least not truly so, not in a mindful manner - it's about allowing, sitting through a mind storm with a willingness to simply, and only allow ourselves to....be. Just this really, nothing more than being present to whatever comes through mind, a participant if called for by tears, or venting rage, laughter, or calmness of a smile. Nothing is denied, whatever the moment offered is exactly what we are in the sense of being joined by its appearance. We're not separate from mind and gain no distance through our watch. 

we're only, simply, presence.

allowing.

and brave through our willingness to sit with this, anything at all, and how we're reveled to be the motion of our very world, shifting too by mood or calm, everything allowed. It's not about gaining a sense of spaciousness, realizing our true nature, no, it's more truly seeing that it's all spaciousness, emptiness in process of appearance - and seeing this gives us courage to allow, sitting through any and every storm by virtue of it being our own becoming. 

everything allowed.

~

Peace, Eric